Back to The Great Depression in Seattle, when an impoverished engineering student Joe Rantz (a solid and amiable Callum Turner) joins the rowing team to earn money and lodgings, who find themselves qualifying for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Bearing some of the hallmarks of Clooney's other directorial efforts - considered, emotionally restrained, earnest to the point of a little drab - it conveys some of the hardship of the era appropriately, but basically it is a handsomely-mounted, glossy, by-the-numbers basic sports genre movie, from forming the team to training montages to major-event underdog status with the usual trials and tribulations along the way and little to surprise at all.
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